From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: Earl Kent <earl.kent@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:55:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oss374n.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> (Earl Kent's message of "Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:11 -0700")
On 2009-07-31 22:18 +0200, Earl Kent wrote:
> I'm working on some research projects on the history of text editor
> technologies and more generally the early days of the free software
> movement. As part of that research I would like to compile, on a
> contemporary Linux distribution, runnable, early versions of the code,
> say circa `88. I've looked all over the Internet the only early
> version of emacs I can find is of 18.59, which is already 1992.
>
> Does anyone know of earlier versions and have
> instructions/scripts/patches for compiling it for Linux? (Even early
> versions of 19.x took a lot of hacking for me to get up and running
> and I still can't 18.59 to run without seg-fault on startup.)
The Gentoo project still supports Emacs 18.59, it seems:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/emacs.xml.
Two older versions, 16.56 and 18.41, are available at
http://matt.lee.name/gnu/MIT/gnu/. Getting these to build will be a
formidable task, I suspect.
Sven
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-31 20:18 Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x) Earl Kent
2009-07-31 20:55 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2009-08-01 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-01 4:45 ` Earl Kent
2009-08-01 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-03 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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